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ROBERT & CLARA SCHUMANN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Benjamin Grosvenor - Schumann & Brahms Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 7/Apr/2023 ] "All in all, this is an album that reaffirms Grosvenor's status as one of the most accomplished pianists around." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2023 |
FREDERICK CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Sonatas 2 & 3, Ballade no.1, Berceuse, Nocturnes Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] Benjamin Grosvenor explores the depths of Chopin with new album featuring Piano Sonatas 2 & 3. Benjamin's ninth album for Decca classics features two of Chopin's most profound and contrasting works. Written nearly a decade apart, these masterpieces... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Elim Chan [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] "It's the kind of disc that makes you rethink these works and appreciate them all over again. And let's hope that this is the start of a wonderful recording partnership with Elim Chan." Gramophone Awards 2020 WINNER - Concerto |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / SERGEI PROKOFIEV / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
From Darkness To Light Catherine Hewgill (cello) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] 'Decca's peerless production values make this both a fine tribute to the veteran pianist and a superb debut disc for Hewgill' Daily Telegraph |
SCARLATTI / GIORDANI / CACCINI / etc
Arie Antiche: Se tu m'ami Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Gyorgy Fischer (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Beautiful songs given the Bartoli treatment |
CACCINI / HANDEL / VIVALDI / BELLINI / ROSSINI / SCHUBERT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Live In Italy (Recorded live in June 1998) Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Cecilia live! |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini recital Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Charles Spencer (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] Some of the music is intensely attractive. There is the touching and reflective early Belta crudele and a song Rossini wrote in 1844 at the height of his illnesses and depressions, L'ame delaissee...decent sound and reliable accompaniments-Gramophone |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV / CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS / etc
Children's Classics [incls 'Peter & the Wolf' & 'Carnival of the Animals'] Beatrice Lillie (narrator), Kenneth McKellar, Julius Katchen (piano). Gary Graffman (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Skitch Henderson [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 6/Feb/2000 ] "it will appeal to children of all ages... a collector's item" (Penguin Guide) |
REINHOLD GLIERE / ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glière / Glazunov: Concertos Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Richard Bonynge (piano), Osian Ellis (harp), Josef Sivo (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, L'Orchestre de la Suisse [ Decca Enterprise / CD - released 13/Aug/1990 ] Original recordings made in 1968 and 1971 |
HUGO WOLF
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Wolf: 13 Lieder nach Gedichten von Eduard Morike (with lieder by Loewe, Grieg & Brahms) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] In memory of an outstanding soprano, the legendary German soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf passed away on August 3rd 2006 (born December 9th 1915), this is Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's last recording - on CD for the first time in over 20 years. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN / FRANZ LISZT / MAURICE RAVEL
Benjamin Grosvenor - Chopin Liszt Ravel (Recital) Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 19/Jan/2012 ] "evidence of an awesome talent, a pianist with fantastic natural reflexes in the Cziffra class and, more excitingly, a musician with purpose and imagination, whose playing transcends the sterile confines of the studio" Gramophone Award WINNER 2012:... |
WOLF / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / R. STRAISS / LOEWE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Art of Hans Hotter Hans Hotter (bass) Geoffrey Parsons (piano) [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "Though recorded later in his career, when this great artist was 64, he is on magnificent form, and brings a lifetime's insights to some of the greatest songs in the Lied repertoire. Indispensable." (BBC Music) |
GERSHWIN / BARBER / BEACH / COLERIGDE-TAYLOR / COPLAND
Isata Kanneh-Mason - Summertime Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 6/Sep/2021 ] "'Summertime' indeed, from a profound and greatly gifted artist who radiates warmth, joy and much-needed musical sunshine." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2021 |
FELIX and FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) / London Mozart Players, Jonathan Bloxham [ Decca / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] "Kanneh-Mason's seemingly effortless precision of articulation, even at breakneck speed, is nothing short of awe-inspiring." Gramophone |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 4 & 5 "Spring" Itzhak Perlman (violin) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 9/Feb/1976 ] "The recording boasts unusually truthful violin sound capturing all the colour of Perlman's playing." (Gramophone Classical Music Guide) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos 9 "Kreutzer" & 10 Itzhak Perlman (violin) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) [ Decca Ovation / CD - released 9/Feb/1994 ] "The recording boasts unusually truthful violin sound capturing all the colour of Perlman's playing." (Gramophone Classical Music Guide) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Works (Incls Piano Sonata in B minor) Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano), Pascal Rogé (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 30/Apr/2018 ] Two pupils of the great Julius Katchen are featured in the piano music of Liszt on this 2CD set. Pascal Rogé was eighteen years old when he recorded the Liszt Piano Sonata, Mazeppa, Vallée d'Obermann and the third Liebestraum in London in 1969. |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Preludes Books 1 & 2 Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 8/Dec/2023 ] Jean-Yves Thibaudet's classic recording of Debussy's Preludes with Vivienne Westwood created artwork. One of Vivienne Westwood's last creations before she died in December 2022, the design includes a personal tribute from Jean-Yves to Vivienne... |
ANONYMOUS / TRADITIONAL / ARNE / HOWELLS / QUILTER / etc
Songs of England Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Ernest Lush (piano) / Norma Procter (contralto), Alec Redshaw (piano) [ Australian Decca Eloquence / CD - released 13/Dec/2017 ] In the August 1953 issue of Opera magazine, the editor looked back on outstanding vocal achievements in the preceding season of opera. Drawing largely from stagings in London, he could pick out Maria Callas as Norma, Kathleen Ferrier as Orpheus and... |
OFFENBACH / MEYERBEER / MASSENET / CHARPENTIER / GOUNOD / etc
Joan Sutherland - Romantic French Arias Joan Sutherland (Soprano) / London Symphony & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor/piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] One of Dame Joan Sutherland's own favourite recordings, long unavailable on its own, reissued with additional material recorded at the Geneva sessions, with rarely seen photographs and a new booklet introduction. |
